Cat Corner

July/05/2005 15:14 Filed in: Recent Finds
William Boyd of Greensboro, NC recently wrote in an email:
"While preaching in Rives, Tennessee I remember hearing that "Cat Corner" in Southwest Obion County received it's name after someone threw a cat through the window while John R. Williams was preaching. A church was still meeting there at the time."

Anybody know where Cat Corner is located and anything about the church?

Tom

Here is an email from Ken Willis who preaches in Morrison, Tenn.

Tom,
Just looked at your restoration website today & the note about "Cat Corner". I preached there once a month during my student days at Freed-Hardeman. It is the Rehoboth congregation in the Cat Corner communiity. It was a thriving community at the time with a busy cotton gin, community store, and lots of share croppers. The cotton gin is gone & most of the share cropper houses, but the little congregation is still there. It is on the road from Newbern (Lane's Ferry Road to the Obion River, then on toward Reelfoot Lake.

The next time I visit my aged mother (now 88 & still liviing alone) I'll try to get the name of that road. It is just a few miles from "Do Drop", which is just an intersection now. Formerly stores, etc.

Ken